Fuel Use: How Low Can You Go?

IMHO, I think trucks should be classified as an air pollution emission source and regulated as such. These trucks should be requried to go through annual emissions testing to meet some defined emissions standard for a region. If they drive outside of their certified region, they are heavily fined. The regions could be broken up into the west (west of the Rockies) US, central US, and the east (states east along the east cost with high populations) US.

Drive outside your cerified region and get fined? When did we become a socialist state?

I can see it now;

DOT officer:

"Good day comrade. I would like to see your papers. What, you dont have papers? You are not authorized to be in this region. You are under arrest. You will be sent to the gulags to do hard labor until you have paid your debt to mother Amerika"

Don't go off the deep end on us!

Hi Guys,

Trucks unlike cars, cannot run on electric engines due to the kilowatt power requirement per ton, so that is out, bio fuels are insufficiently advanced to provide sufficient cheap power per acre of land use to make them. I believe the car industry should have a timeframe regulation 20 years to go all electric recharge from solar, no more petrol or even hybrid cars, but trucks to date have no power source capable of replacing current technology so you cannot ask for a regulation of any kind at this stage - LPG Gas like buses you might say? Australia tried that road with cars, the crafty government even paid for free gas conversions, then simply put the price of LPG up to half that of petrol from less than one third, so economically gas is not valid for trucks under load, and very few cars in Australia. I think we need concentrate on finding an alternative rather than regulate small pathetic economy changes at this point.

Archie from Enerventure